reperfusion
noun
reperfusion is a noun meaning “The restoration of blood flow to an organ, after it was cut off (e.g. in an operation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-P-E-R-F-U-S-I-O-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reperfusion is reperfusions.
What does reperfusion mean?
noun
- 1
The restoration of blood flow to an organ, after it was cut off (e.g. in an operation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reperfusion?
Reperfusion has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of reperfusion
- reperfusions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reperfusion?
Reperfusion appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does reperfusion come from?
From re- + perfusion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).